2006

2006 in baseball
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Championships, events, culture, births, and deaths that occurred in 2006.

Club competitions

Professional

Asia and Australia

• Asia Series: Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (NPB) defeated the La New Bears (CPBL) in the finals, 1 - 0 (Details)
• Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Nippon Series: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (PL) over the Chunichi Dragons (CL), 4 - 1 - 0 (Details)
    • Central League: Chunichi Dragons (Details)
    • Pacific League: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (Details)
• Korea Baseball Organization: Samsung Lions defeated the Hanwha Eagles in the Korean Series (Details)
• Chinese Professional Baseball League: La New Bears defeated the Uni-President Lions in the Taiwan Series (Details)
• China Baseball League: Tianjin Lions defeated the Guangdong Leopards in the championship series, 3 - 0 (Details)
• Claxton Shield: Queensland Rams

Europe

• European Cup: T&A San Marino, Serie A1 (Details)
  • Division Élite: Rouen Baseball 76
  • Baseball-Bundesliga: Solingen Alligators
  • Hoofdklasse Honkbal: Corendon Kinheim
    • Holland Series: Honkbal Club Kinheim defeated the Hoofddorp Pioniers in the series, 3 - 2 (Details)
  • Serie A1: Telemarket Rimini

North America

• Major League Baseball
  • World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) over the Detroit Tigers (AL), 4 - 1 (Details)
    • American League: Detroit Tigers (Details)
    • National League: St. Louis Cardinals (Details)

• Minor League Baseball
  • American Association: Fort Worth Cats
  • Appalachian League: Danville Braves
  • Arizona League: AZL Padres
  • Atlantic League: Lancaster Barnstormers
  • Bricktown Showdown: Tucson Sidewinders (PCL) over the Toledo Mud Hens (IL), 5 - 2
  • California League: Inland Empire 66ers
  • Canadian-American Association: Quebec Capitales
  • Carolina League: Kinston Indians
  • Eastern League: Portland Sea Dogs
  • Florida State League: St. Lucie Mets
  • Frontier League: Evansville Otters
  • Golden League: Reno Silver Sox
  • Gulf Coast League: GCL Red Sox
  • International League: Toledo Mud Hens (Details)
  • Midwest League: West Michigan Whitecaps
  • New York-Penn League: Staten Island Yankees
  • Northern League: Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks
  • Northwest League: Salem-Keizer Volcanoes
  • Pacific Coast League: Tucson Sidewinders (Details)
  • Pioneer League: Missoula Osprey
  • South Atlantic League: Lakewood BlueClaws
  • Southern League: Montgomery Biscuits
  • Texas League: Corpus Christi Hooks
  • United League: Alexandria Aces

• Liga Mexicana de Béisbol: Leones de Yucatán defeated the Sultanes de Monterrey in the finals, 4 - 1

• Cuban Serie Nacional: Industriales (Details)

Winter Leagues

• Serie del Caribe: in Maracay, Aragua/Valencia, Venezuela; Leones del Caracas (Venezuela) (Details)
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana: Tigres del Licey defeated the Águilas Cibaeñas in the finals, 5 - 2
  • Liga Mexicana del Pacífico: Venados de Mazatlán
  • Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico: Gigantes de Carolina defeated the Leones de Ponce in the finals, in an unknown result
  • Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional: Leones del Caracas defeated the Tigres de Aragua in the finals, 4 - 1

Amateur

• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • College World Series (Division I): Oregon State University defeated the University of North Carolina in the finals, 3 - 4, 11 - 7, 3 - 2 (Details)
  • Division II Baseball Championship: The University of Tampa over the California State University, Chico, 3 - 2 (10 inn.) in the finals
  • Division III Baseball Championship: Marietta College over the Wheaton College (Massachusetts), 7 - 2 in the finals
• NAIA College World Series: Lewis-Clark State College over the Saint Ambrose University, 5 - 4 in the finals
• National Junior College Athletic Association
  • Division I Baseball World Series: Walters State Community College
  • Division II Baseball World Series: Louisiana State University at Eunice
  • Division III Baseball World Series: Eastfield College
• Community College League of California: Long Beach City College over Sacramento City College 8 - 1 in the finals
• National Baseball Congress World Series: Santa Barbara Foresters (Details)
• National Club Baseball Association: Colorado State University
• Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association/Association de Baseball Inter-Universitaire Canadienne: McGill University
• All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series: Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences defeated the Aoyama Gakuin University in the final, 7 - 6 (Details)
• Japan High School Baseball Federation
  • National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament: Yokohama High School (Kanagawa) defeat Seihou High School (Nagasaki), 21 - 0 in the championship (Details)
  • National High School Baseball Championship: Waseda Jitsugyo High School (West Tokyo) defeat Komadai Tomakomai (South Hokkaido), 4 - 3 in a replay of the championship game after the first game was called after 15 innings with the score tied at 1 - 1 (Details)
• Little League
  • Little League World Series: Columbus (Columbus, GA) defeat Kawaguchi City (Kawaguchi, Saitama), 2 - 1 in the championship (Details)

International competitions

• Intercontinental Cup in Taiwan (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); The Netherlands (Silver); Taiwan (Bronze)
• Women's Baseball World Cup in Taipei City, Taiwan Taiwan (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Japan (Silver); Canada (Bronze)
• World Baseball Classic: Japan (Gold); Cuba (Silver); South Korea (Bronze) (Details)
• World Junior Championship in Havana, Cuba (Details)
  • South Korea (Gold); United States (Silver); Canada (Bronze)
• World University Baseball Championship in Havana, Cuba (Details)
  • United States (Gold); Chinese Taipei (Silver); Cuba (Bronze)
• Asian Games in Doha, Qatar (Details)
  • Chinese Taipei (Gold); Japan (Silver); South Korea (Bronze)
• Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia (Details)
  • Cuba (Gold); Dominican Republic (Silver); Mexico (Bronze)
• Central American Games in Managua, Nicaragua (Details)
  • Nicaragua (Gold); Guatemala (Silver); Honduras (Bronze)
• Japan All-Star Series in Japan (Details)

Culture

Literature

• Baseball Love, by George Bowering
• Baseball Without Borders, by George Gmelch
• Built to Win, by John Schuerholz
• Bury My Heart at Cooperstown, by Frank Russo and Gene Racz
• Clearing the Bases, by Mike Schmidt
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, by David Maraniss
• Designated Hebrew, by Ron Blomberg and Dan Schlossberg
• The Echoing Green, by Joshua Prager
• The Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, by Leslie Heaphy and Mel Anthony May
• For One More Day, by Mitch Albom
• A Game of Inches, by Peter Morris
• Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
• The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
• Love Me, Hate Me, by Jeff Pearlman
• The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball, by Scott Gray
• The Negro Leagues Chronology, by Christopher Hauser
• The Northern Game, by Bob Elliott
• Shades of Glory, by Lawrence D. Hogan
• A Well-Paid Slave, by Brad Snyder

Song

• Lightspeed, by Matt & Kim
• Swing, by Trace Adkins

Film

• Long Road Home

Births

Further information: Births in 2006

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 2006

Further Reading

• Will Leitch: "'06: An unlikely champ, pink bats and 1st WBC", mlb.com, May 2, 2020. [1]